Jared Friedman

Jared Friedman is Managing Director, Software and General Partner at YC. He was co-founder of Scribd, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2006 and grew to be one of the top 100 sites on the web. Jared previously worked at a pioneering AI company and studied computer science at Harvard.

YC stats

• The YC companies Jared has worked with are worth a combined $103 billion.
• Jared has advised more than 20 YC unicorns including:
  • Eight Sleep
  • Human Interest
  • Gecko Robotics
  • Boom
  • Astranis
  • BillionToOne
  • Rappi
  • Vetcove
  • Meesho
  • Scale AI
  • Flutterwave
  • Bird
  • Solugen
  • Gem
  • Vanta
  • Substack
  • Replit
  • Prometheus
  • H1
  • AtoB
  • Supabase
  • Nourish
  • Zepto

In the news

• VentureBeat: Y Combinator names Scribd cofounder Jared Friedman as partner
• TechCrunch: Scribd Raises $22M For Its Subscription E-Book Service
• STAT: Y Combinator to fund more academic spinouts developing small-molecule drugs
• Insider: The top startup accelerator shares the 4 misconceptions to keep in mind for scientists and researchers who want to bring their ideas to Silicon Valley

Videos and Essays

How to get startup ideas

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Over 1 year ago

Advice for Hard-Tech and Biotech founders

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Over 1 year ago

Does YC fund solo founders?

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Over 1 year ago

Ginkgo Bioworks (S14) is going public today. To celebrate their IPO, here's the story of how Ginkgo Bioworks ended up in YC, and what their journey was like as YC's first biotech startup.

How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup

Here is advice for people who have done scientific research at a university and are considering starting a company to commercialize it.

How biotech startup funding will change in the next 10 years

The landscape of funding for biotech startups is changing. What happened for software companies 10 years ago is happening to biotech today. Here's why more people will be able to start biotech companies moving forward.